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# Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

- **Company:** IMGIX, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Software Design Documents, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Video Editing, Production Code, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0a2118dc02c384a3

## About the Role

* Strong Python developer. You write clean, maintainable production code - not scripts on the side of an ops role.
 * Cloud infrastructure experience. 5+ years working with a major cloud provider (GCP strongly preferred; AWS/Azure also considered), including multi-region deployments.
 * Infrastructure-as-code fluency. Terraform or OpenTofu experience. You define infrastructure in code and deploy it through CI/CD.
 * Linux fundamentals. Comfortable in the operating system your services run on.
 * Operational ownership mindset. You've been on-call, you've triaged production incidents by reading logs and metrics rather than following a script, and you've dug into root cause on your own.
 * Clear communicator. We're a fully remote team. Strong async written communication matters as much as technical skill.

Bonus Points:

 * Experience with CDNs, caching infrastructure, or visual media pipelines.
 * Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as GDPR and SOC 2.

## Description

* Write and maintain production Python services that handle billions of daily requests, including our core rendering and delivery infrastructure.
 * Design systems with failure modes, cost, and performance in mind - then own them through deployment and beyond.
 * Build infrastructure tooling and automation (Terraform, CI/CD, Docker) that makes the whole team faster.
 * Collaborate across engineering on cloud cost optimization, balancing reliability and performance with real budget constraints.
 * Contribute to maintaining 99.99%+ uptime through monitoring, incident response, and on-call rotation.
 * Create clear documentation - operational references, design docs, alert guides - so the systems you build are understandable by the whole team.


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